Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of kidney organ donors that develop health problems after donating a kidney.

Data on the number of kidney donors that develop health problems after donating a kidney is not held centrally.

However, evidence suggests that living kidney donation is safe and life-time risks are low provided that the living donor is carefully assessed in the context of his/her own individual health risks. All potential kidney donors undergo a comprehensive evaluation to ensure their suitability and to minimise the risk of donation.